Eight Hundred Years of Roman Coinage
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Description: Article by numismatist David R Sear, with images.
Perspectives in Numismatics - Eight Hundred Years of Roman Coinage Eight Hundred Years of Roman Coinage The subject of Roman numismatics spans almost eight hundred years, from early in the 3rd century B.C. to the Anastasian currency reform at the very end of the 5th century A.D. Although it began as the coinage of a relatively obscure central Italian city state, it quickly grew to become a large scale international currency. This was a result of Rome's military and political expansion, first to a position of dominance in Italy, then to supremacy in the western Mediterranean area following the defeat of Carthage, and finally to control over the entire Mediterranean basin with the decline and collapse of the great Hellenistic monarchies of the east.
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